Thomas Campanus (Holm), who was chaplain to the Swedish settlements on the Delaware, 1642-9, and who collected a vocabulary, wrote Hdckiing (ueiig), "Hook." This sound of the word may have led the Dutch to adopt Hackingh as an orthography -- modern Haking, " Hooking," incurved as a hook. is ^anJasper arm ofDankers and land the main Peteron Sluyter wrote the west side inoftheir the Journal : "Gamaenapaen North River, beginning at Constable's Hook, directly opposite to Staten Island, from which it is separated by the Kil van Kol. It is almost an hour broad, but has large salt meadows or marshes on the Kil van Kol. It is everywhere accessible by water from the city."

lo6 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Y., i, 50) claimed the name as Dutch from Gemeente, "Commons, pubHc property," and Paen, "Soft land," or in combination, "Tillable land and marsh belonging to the community," a relation which the lands certainly sustained. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 234.) The lands were purchased by Midiael Pauw in 1630, and sold by liim to the Dutch government in 1638. Although clearly a Dutch name it has •been claimed as Indian, from Lenape Gamenozvinink (Zeisb.), "England, on the other side of the sea." Gamoenapaug, one of the forms of the name, is quoted as the basis of this claim; also, Acomnnipag, "On the other side of the bay." The Dutdh did substitute paen for pang in some cases, but it is very doubtful if they did here.

Ahasimus -- Achasscmus in deed to 'Michael Pauw, 1630 -- now preserved in Harsimus, was a place lying west of the "Little Island, Ares'sick ;" later described as "The corn-land of the Indians," indicating that the name was from Lenape Chasqummes (Zeisb.),. "Small corn." Ashki'muis, "Sea maize." ^ (See Arisheck.) Bergen, the name of die third settlement, is met in Scandanavian and in German dialects.